Misinformation about Tamil Nadu’s upcoming elections is rife. With the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finally hoping to gain majority with Congress, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's (AIADMK) alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party...
On February 20, RapTV tweeted that Bill Gates is planning to spray dust towards the sun in an effort to fight climate change.
As of March 27, the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election, which is to take place over four weeks and in eight phases, is underway. Unsurprisingly, misinformation about the parties' respective candidates has already been circulating on...
On February 16, President Joe Biden appeared on a CNN Town Hall hosted by Anderson Cooper. During the Town Hall, Biden answered questions posed by some members of the audience on various topics, including COVID-19, unemployment, and student...
India’s nearly half-year long farmers agitation received international attention earlier this month when Rihanna tweeted about the protests. The 32-year-old Barbados-born singer’s tweet asked “[W]hy aren’t we talking about this?!” along with an...
On January 3 this year, activist Rachna Dhingra highlighted in a Twitter thread that hundreds of survivors from one of the world’s worst industrial disasters — 1984’s Bhopal gas tragedy — were being targeted and unethically recruited to...
On December 2, OpIndia, a right-wing Indian news website published a piece railing against the practice of fact checking, calling it a new name for the “same old propaganda journalism” and sarcastically calling fact checkers “unbiased angels...
On December 8, farmer unions called for a nationwide Bharat Bandh—with resounding support from opposition parties—in protest against the new agricultural reforms. As has happened with several major protests in the recent past, social media was...